30 Best Summer Activities for Families
Celebrate the summer season with 30 Summer Activities for Families! There are so many outdoor adventures, crafts, and meaningful moments to enjoy in the summer months. This printable summer bucket list can help you make the most of the dog days of summer!
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Celebrating the Summer Season
Summer is such a special season, especially for families! Whether you homeschool or not, families are usually able to spend more time together, especially in the great outdoors!
There are so many things to do in summer, and it’s the perfect time to enjoy the long days and summer heat.
Whether you you go on outdoor adventures, enjoy live music, or take a relaxing vacation, the summer months are perfect for spending time together strengthening your family bonds.
There are so many great ways to have bonding time outside, and wonderful, simple ways to hang out as a whole family!
The Summer Bucket List
Projects & Adventures
Take a zoo trip
Visit your local museums. Perfect for those extra hot days. They are so fun of you can find ones that have interactive exhibits.
Try new splash pads
Make a summer wreath for your front door
Go camping (on a trip or in your backyard)
Take a family hike
Go fishing
Catch lightning bugs
Go to the farmer’s market for fresh produce and local artists
Make sno-cones or go buy some at a carnival
Go swimming in lakes and ponds. If you’re near the ocean, try to catch creatures in tide pools!
Take a picnic to the park
Watch fireworks
Plan a family vacation together
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Recipes
Make homemade ice cream
Try a new summer salad, like this BLT Chopped Salad
Go blackberry picking and then make homemade blackberry jam
Try a new grill recipe, like foil packets
“Summer was our best season: it was sleeping on the back screened porch in cots, or trying to sleep in the tree house; summer was everything good to eat; it was a thousand colors in a parched landscape; but most of all, summer was Dill.”
– Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird
Books
10 Children’s Books About Summer
A Field Guide to Summer: Play and Learn in Nature
Related Post: 10 Children’s Books About Summer
More Summer Activities & Inspiration
Take short drives around your home with Sonic happy hour drinks
Have a fight with water balloons
Have a “favorite things” day where everyone in your family chooses a few of their favorite places, things to do and eat
I hope this resource blesses you and your family this year!
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